El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe

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El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe
El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe
Foucault's Pendulum
Foucault's Pendulum

El Museu de les Ciències Príncipe Felipe (the Museum of Sciences) is an important visitor attraction in Valencia in Spain. It forms part of Ciutat de les Arts i les Ciències.

The building was designed by Santiago Calatrava and was built by a joint venture of Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas and Necso.[1] It opened on 13 November 2000.

The building is over 40,000 square meters in area and resembles the skeleton of a whale.

Everything in the museum is graphically displayed: recent exhibitions have included subjects as diverse as spy science, climate change, the human body and biometrics.

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